Canadian Nobel Laureates

Canadians have been honoured as Nobel Laureates since 1923 when Frederick Banting received The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of insulin.

The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, and based on the fortune of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and entrepreneur. Prizes can be awarded to individuals or organizations. Since Frederick Banting there have been nineteen Canadian born recipients.

The 2018 Nobel Prize co-winner for Physics is Donna Strickland, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. She is the third woman to have won the physics prize; the first being Marie Curie in 1903 and the second being Maria Goeppert Mayer in 1963.

The Candian Nobel Laureates are as follows

1923

1949

William F. Giauque, Chemistry
— "for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures"

The "Suez Crisis" found its solution when the President of the UN General Assembly, the Canadian Lester Pearson, won support for sending a UN Emergency Force to the region to separate the warring parties. This gained him the Peace Prize in 1957.

1989

1990

Richard E. Taylor, Physics
— "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics"